Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Fragment ID: 19450

I have been thinking that to change one’s nature first one must restrain one’s desire, then one must act according to the Mother’s will and gradually there will be no will of one’s own any more – all will happen by the Mother’s will. Am I right?

At first one must put one’s will in unison with the Mother’s will knowing that it is an instrument only and that it is the Mother’s will behind that alone can give the result. Afterwards, when one becomes conscious fully of the Mother’s force working within, then the personal will is replaced by the divine.

15 July 1935